The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-09 00:00:00

• POETRY. - HORACE, SOOK I. ODE 6. IMITATED. ADDRESSED MOST RESPECTFULLY TO THE BIGHT MON. LORI) VISCOUNT WELLINGTON. Clitt'ring in all the pomp of war, t rown'd with thy valour's meed, success, My timid Muse dec4nes to soar On epic wings thy worth t'express. Weakly could she stern Diomed Depid, as putting Gods to flight Or Achilles, by anger led, Daring brave Heraor to the fight. Still less could she in verse engage. Leaving . the fabled lore aside ; The war to sine that thou dost wage, To humble fell Napoleon's priele. * Let Croker, in immortal verse, To future dynasties proclaim Thy viaories o'er invaders fierce, Worthy of Wellesley's honour'd name. To Talavera's direful fray Boldly he strung his classic lyre, And sung of that terrific day In strains replete with heav'nly fire. Let him thy European deeds. And battles in the Orient fought, Sing with that strength which but procc2d; From minds with inspiration fraught. And let him,‘favour'd by the Muse, Touch with a master's hand the string, .rosouud the recent, glorious news, And o 1 blood.stain'd Bnzaco sing. Where Albion's ensigns proudly wav'd Triumphant o'er superior force, And many a hardy Gaul enstav'd, Became that day a ghastly corse. The task my Musc tilore:londly seeks, And suits her tranquil temper best, Is to record what eanclour.spcaks— Ihe virtues of thy manly breast. True there are some—a worthless-few Who envious,of thy just renown, Would blasi_thy wreath to baleful rue, •Anti on thy patriot triumphs frown. . But Viese are 13ritalt:'s Korn and shame, The refuse of a,generous Isle; That, proud of, Wellesley's hard.earn'd tante, Hail with applauSe his splendid toil. In private life rever'd, belov'd,• In public by the good ador'd, may'st thou; Chief, be victor prov'd, 'Till peace is to our Land restor'd. • * Tohn Wilson Croker, Esq. M. P. SectetarV'to the Ad miralty, Author of that admirable Poem " the Battles of Talavero," and other justly esteemed produelions. ROSIBEC. Charing cross, pa. 27, tZto. FRENCH COMMERCIAL, DECREES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. MR. EDITOR, Great pains are now taking by Buonaparte to inculcate a belief, that the rigorous enforcement of his Decrees for the exclusion of colonial produce and British manufactures from the Continent of Europe will soOrreffect the downfall of this country. The Meniteur says, " The system adopted by the " Emperor is the surest means of conquering the "English it stifles them in the midst of their " wealth, it is the cause of all their bankruptcies." .' The. Journal "de l'Empire says, '" Certainly, if in " the next spring the Continental Powers, adopt the " same measures, and they are executed with fide- " lity,_ England will not be able to support this ge "'"« neral exclusion of her commerce;" and the same sentiments are expressed in different words in most of the French papers. It is difficult to imagine-that the Editors of the Paris Journals, who, to be qualified for their situa tions, must possess some knowledge of the interests and, 'resources of this country, can believe that the exclusion of Colonial produce 'and . British mann frititureS fr6m the. Continental markets, even were it as completely effected;as Buonaparte can wish, Zc ould annihilate • our commercial prosperity, or cripple our 1-rational exertions. Such assertions may, indeed, impose upon' the credulity of the tat-lauds of Paris, . and reconcile them in some de . - gree to the privations and miseries theysuffen under the continuance of the'war, by holding out to them a prospeCt of it;-speedy termination; they may.also be •caleulated; pal - titularly 'during•l his gloomy month of November, to ch.press the spir its of some of our own countrymen, • who may not have the means of aseertailing whether. these' confident predictiiins of the enemy are or -are not well founded, It. rnAy • therefore, be a task of somepublic utility, to set this subject" in a proper point of view, through the me dium of your valuable paper: .With respell to sugar, the annual average importa tion of that commodity from all. the. Colonies, the produce of which is admitted:to the.horne consump. • tinn of Great Britain, ,was prpved by the official re, turns laid before the Distillery. Committee of the House of Commons, in 1807, to be .::70,000 The.same•authetity SlieWs the regular consumption of these kingdoms to he 200;000 !rds. and the dis tilleries now•coristune 50,000 more, leaving a dis posable surplus of only 20,000 lards; per annum. This quantity is so inadequate to supply the demand for expoitation, that since the substitution of sugar for grain in the distilleries:, the glut .then on hand has completely disappeared ; for the returns Of the 'est India Doelf Company prcive, that the quan tity in their warehouses, on , tke 16th of June last, including Foreign as well as. British Plantation sugar, was only 18,430 casks, equal to but five weeks con snmptiorh The crop of the present year has .been - • unusually short,• and in donsequence of the aboli lion of tl , "trlave-trade, that of every subsequent,. year .mitSrt-eontinue _to decrease more and More; so'.• that in all probability we shall shortly be obliged to , admit the surrirs of Martinique and - GuaddlOupe into home consumption, in Order to supply the deficient growth a our own Colonies. Buouaparte, in his rage, deals out his•bloi,vs. at random, and often mis•es his aim. In , this-case they tall not upon British subj,-cts, -hut . upon his own subjects ; not upon British planters, but upon French planters; upOn the inhabitants of Martini que and Gu4daloupe,- whose sugars . are excluded from the home consumption of Gnat Britain, and, can be sold for exportation , alone. Muscovado sugars, and even the interior descriptions of clayed sugar, the produce of . those colonies, will not now sell for 30s. pt:l' cwt,; while the average price of Muscovado sugar, the pr,-duce of the B 7 ltish colo= is from 475. to 50s. Per cwt. exc:usice.of duty, as appears by the weekly returns published in the Gazette. ,Phis plain statement pre, es, that the British planters are rendered completely independent of the decrees of Buomsparte, by the wise and salu tarymeasure of substutning sugar for grain in the distilleries; and that the only parties a ff ected , by his decrees are the planters of his own colonies. When the capture of these colonies was announced, he . boasted that they would be restored to him at a peace, improved by, .British. possession, and enriched. by British capital ; but if they' are restored to him again, he will find. them destitute both of capital and credit, .and wined by the effect 'of his own mea- sures. With respect to'cotfee, the British Legislature has judiciously' reduced the 'duty on the home con sumption of that article, if imported from the Bri- tish Plantations, so - as to bring it into general use; thus securing an exclusive market for 'their produce .and, therefore, in, this instance, as in the former, the restrictions imposed by Buonaparte upon the itn poriation of, it into the Continent, fill upon the produce of the Foreign, not of the British Colonies ;• and are felt by.the• Foreign, not by the British Planter. ' . Can Buonaparte be ignorant, .that the exclusion of .British, ships and British tnanufaaures from the. Continent of Europe is amply compensated by the new ports opened -to our shipping, and the new markets opened to our goods, in South America ;. that the nvickufaaures of France, and of all the na-• firms under tier control, aredlectually excluded from. every foreign market by the;Orders in Council of Great Britain, and their plaCe supplied by British manufactures; or can he believe that he is likely to succeed in exiisusting our resources, when the con sequence of hi l s own measures has been, that the mines, ,of Alexia.? and • Peru ate pouring. their accu mulated treasurgs_iino our coffers ? • These facts \ may,serve to tranquilize the minds of those wliV hairelaeuti alarmed by the denunciations so confidently • pronounced in the French papers; 'Tfiey also starve to skew, that his 'Majesty's Ministers live not been inattentive to the great 'in , (crests' of 1 the Empire':' but that, on the contrary, by 'the wisdom of their measures, they have baffitd the proje6ts of the enemy, and have retorted his devices ill:on his own head. •• • The bankruptcies that have lately taken place are 'Owing, not to the decay, but to the exuberance of our coMmeice. ,• When a new field is opened to mercantile enterprize, some speculations will be made with and some withot7,! judgment ; too great a quantity of some commocht, and an insufficient supply of others, will be sent , out ; some articles will be shipped that are, and sc that are not suited to the taste of the inhabitants. In short, from these end various other causes, some will make great gains, and others experience heavy losses. The rage 1 for speculation, too, induces many men to adven ture beyond all due proportion to their capital ; and then, in case of any disappointment in then- remit tances, or any check to that system of paper accom modation on which they depend, they become . in capable of fulfilling their engaements i bit to irp . pate these failures td the decline of our commerce is as absurd as it would be to I:oring forward thedeath of some of our Common Councilmen, after the Lord Mayor'S feast; as a probf of•a faniine. A true esti mate of the commercial prosperity of a nation •may be formed 'from the amount of its exports and irn ports, and from the state of its great trading The imports' and exports of thiS country lia%e in creased beYond all former example :• Buonaparfe hai not thought proper to publish thoseof France. In the commercial cities of . this country, the harbour's are filled with shipping, loading arid unloading; new buildings are daily erecting .; the, streets are crowded, and enlivened with thebusy hum of men : every thing, in a word, wears theface of a6.tivity and. prosperity. In those of France, dismantled ' hulks - are . rotting in the harbours; • the houses are falling into ruin; grass grows in the streets; and the stillness that prevails, is the silence of deso lation. For some time past I have been inclined to think that it4as the intention of Buonaparte, atter shut ting'up the present channels of intercourse 'between -this country and the continent, to open new ones, through his own ports; to supply all Europe thruugh France; and to make this commerce the source of an. immense revenue. Such an union of wealth and power would have rendered him truly formidable ! But I rejoice to ling that his rage has got the better of his policy ; and I contemplate with delight his late oppressive,and outrageous decree, .for there is a paint beyond which human endurance cannot be pushed.. Boonaparte hoped, byrmaking hiinself master of •Spaini to gain- possession of the whole line `of coast horn the Mediterranean to the Baltic ; but the atrocious perfidy which he employed, as the means of accomplishing his cud, defeated his object, and raised a spirit of resistance. and detestation against • him, which, he will never be able to subdue. The same causes ever produce the same effeds ; and I look for. similar good consequences in other , pants of Europe, fronkhis present outrageous pro ceedings. - Every new ad of violence and injustice that .he commits, every new attack that he makes upon the' peace and comfort of society, by his un exampled' vexations, confiscations, and military ex ecutions, renders his tyranny the more insupport able, tends to unite mankind in one common. cause against him, and accelerate his tall. MERCATOR. telIV REPORI: tbtfT:T OF KiNG'S THE yALIXHALL ERIDGE COMPANY V.•DODD. The ATTORNEY . GENERALsbewed cause against a rule obtained against the defendant in this case, for attachment fir non-payment of liioney belonging-to the Company in the defendant's hands, agreebty to an award. The plaintiffs his case were a Co•n pany incorpbratud, ize believed, by Act of Parlia ment. Against a Corkioration no attachment for non-payment of money could issue ; but if the pre sent defend Ant, or any person else had, or supposed he had any claim against such a Company, he must proceed to make it effeCtual by an action at law. If such then was the only mode of proceeding which the defendant could have had against the present plaintiffs, he conceived. that it followed, as a matter of course, that the plaintiffs could be in no better case when Making a claim against the defendant, than the defendant would have been bad ne been in their -place, -and were now bringing torward a demand egainst thcm. • Lord ELLENBORUGH—" Mr. Attorney Gew;ral, will you tell us 11 here we are to look to find this rule of reciprocity ?" . Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL—,": Into your own minds, as being consistent with material justice?' Role made ab§olute. From analogy to the ease of Broughton and IVlar tin, where it bad been held that after a man had• been absent from the country for seven years, out bis having heard any accounts of him, she was entitled to suppose him dead, and contraeta second marriage, Mr. Nolan some time since tuned for a rule to shewv cause - why a person who as a prisoner in execution - at the suit of one Who was himseif an untertificated bankrupt, and had left the country upwards-of seven years•ago, being heard of, should be discharged out of custody. He now 'moved to have this rule enlarged, on ac count of an inaccuracy in - the'. mode of drawing- up the rule. Lord ELLENBOROUGH desired that, before the Rule should be tn“de absolute, the Court should see the affidavits, as it was a new case. It would b necessary that the affidavits should bear, not only that the creditor had been abroad tor seven years, but that he had not been heard of for that period.-- Rule enlarged. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7. GAEDINER AND wririas, SENHOUSE AND uniz RS. This cause, which was on a. policy of insurance, had been, tried last term, on a motion fur a new zrial,,and a verdict entered for the plaintiff. Mr. Serjeanf COCKELL now moved for a Rule to spew cause why a new trial thould , not be again granted, on the ground that the Jury had found a perverse verdict, contrary to the direction of, the Court, and had construed _the policy of insurance improperly ; havina given-to it -a latitude which, in _fat, it would not bear.—The policy was on the ship Good Hope,' bound on a trading voyage from Lon don to Trinidad, and from - thence to all or any of the ports of dischargelon the Spanish Main, with liberty of calling at any of the British settlements. orviilands, in'the course of hee,voyage to the Spanish' Main, with the exception of Jamaica and St. P— aling°. Tue vessel, it appeared, .waslast on. the Ane-. gala Reef, near the island of St.; Thotrias ;. ard the question lams, whether that island was in the direct and seamanlike course of a vessel bound to Abe western part of the Spanish Mai n _ _ _Chief Justice MANSEIELD--,•‘! There must. be a rule to shew cause. The Court was pertectly in possession of the merits of the , cause-I recoiled the feeling by which I was.infLienced when. I practised at the Bar, and had I been Counsel for. the plaintiff in this cause, I should, atter the Court bad waled its opinion, have agreed that toy Client should be . non-suited, and tior have trusted to the. prejudice of a. Jury. I do not :mean to insinuate any. thing against the Jury Who pronounced. the verdict' in this case—they, like other men, have their preju dices. These things are talked over, at Lloyd's be fore they come into Court, and opinions are there given as to the meaning and- intent of disputed policies, which, of course, must have soine eti - ct It was supposed by the plaintiff, that there was a pre judice among the Jury, and, therefore; the question was suffered to go. to them. It hail , been at tempted to be proved, that • proceeding by the Virgin. Islands was the way to Trinidad.; but this was qualified by the plaintiff's witnesses staling, it was the way according to the clause contained in the Policy ; and when I first read the Policy, I sup posed that it gave a latitude, which, on a subse- Oent examination, I fotind. it did not possess.--41, the same ccmchaCcis to be pursued by the plaintiff's Counsel, and that a little, prejudice exists among the Jury, the defendant will gain . nothing, ulti mately, by this application.--,-However, Like the Rule." Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD who was Counsel for the plaintiff on the former trial, stated, that it be bad supposed the opinion of the Court had been so de cidedly against him on that occasion, he ctrtainly would not have 'messed the business farther. THOMPSON V. WHITMORE. The plaintiff' had been nonsuited in this cause la,t Tenn, a point being , reserved for OIL-considera tion of the Com t. Mr. Serjeant LENS stated, that this was an ai.'.tion upon a policy of insurance on the ship Collioo , ood, which was in the service of Government ; and, on her voyage from Lisbon, had arrived 'at Sioke'S Bay, when it was found necessary that she should undergo some repair ; she was accordiogly laid down: on Gosport Hard, where, in the course of a tide or two, from her shores giving way, or some other cause, she had sustained considerable damage —the question was, whether this 'could.be calaa peril of the sea, within the meaning of the policy ? His Lordship had, on thex trial, expressed a contrary opinion. Lord Chief Justice MANSFIELD—" I think this cannot be called a peril of the sea, when, tor the LONDON : Printed by RICHARD HA Rid S, of No. 4, Martlett-co 1: L, Low-street and PKblished by WILLIAM AItMI G E R SCR Il' I'S, South Moi ton. o the N +OFFICE, NO, 1I 2, Strad, whore dcivertisementa, Orders for the Paper, Letters for the Editor- Zxo. !post-pciiia), muk Frpces of re - air,the,ship,,haci, hee,n taken from tb? ' sea, am! . placeA itprinland." - The original nonsuit — Waibf couNt , confirtnel IhAII3LII AND oTnyas V. Ii6H:IODALLE AN Is trrn Has: Mr. Seijeant Stir rrrei;ll - moved for a Rul e t° klia• %hew catise'why the verdkt f oun d a ga i nst t he P.- n tiffs in this case sh ou ld not be fief action on a policy of insurance, effected by ad JOnes, on a qnantity of brandy shipped on the Mercurius, bound from eharante to London. The Point was, whether the letter which had been Writen to Mr. Jones, and which' was in his P ° :i ,i session at the time he 'effected the insurance, sil °l l .. not have been she w n t o th e un d erwr i ters ? ity letter had been written on the Rd of February, f` °° . Cogniac, a tow n not very far distant frOttl rante; it stated, "That the Mercurtus would ready to sail in the ensu i ng wee k ;" on tilt a, it, 17th, and 18th of that month, a very severe st 0 " 11 , occassioned great damage in the Channel ; and LiP ; wards of ;Op ves se l s were .iost, arriong which i the Mercurius. Mr.' Shepherd contended,, Wad' Mr Jones having in his . poss es i o n ' t h e 'letter 'dot e the 2'd of February, announcing the if,tendrd de ' parture of the v esse l in the ensuing week, shoul d have produced it, as a thicnnient 01, the uttnost fir; portanee to the underwriters-who would the' r have been 'enabled. to' form a more accurate Pig'. merit than they otherwise could. Lord Chief Justic e MAN SFIELD— va " It 15 a question lett for the consideration 'of the J,,ry, they appeared very attentive' tO it.. I' think I left the circumstance of the letter , to be considered bi them." • h Serjeant You did, my Low, w .t this observation, That as the UiLderwri,eis ko d e, a the storm had taken place; iii :Was 'stringe th , Y ; not ask Some questions.' I b eg ledte to subn' l l ': that the Underwrite t s',k now l e d ge on,t hat.poii" dered more - necessary that the letter should h a % been produced," • Lord Chief Justice M s hicsriELD—“ Take a r ul e' this is a question that must go to the Jury." CHO / LIE:A V. YATES. Mr. Serjeant LENS moved fora rule to shew ca` ls , 6 d why the v e :dici o b ta i ne d l ast Term in this should not be set aside, and a nonsuit enteN d l,, The plaintiff had brought his action fal or de urra , l l; under the following circtialstances :—A of brandy had been shipped on board ins 'o°' but the bills of lading had not been made D Lit' d, the common form, a clause having been , insertcnt stating that the puncheons, Sex. should bt:tak-ell ' llO iq twenty days after th e arr i va l o f the vessel or 1 41 . owner of the brandy t o b e li a bl e to a charge t i. he per day demurrage. The vessel I.vas laying ill West India Docks,. an d, b y the provisiints'of die Ai regulating the unloading of vessels there, w ' l i o r must be complied 'with, a delay' took pla'' hd which, as the defendant could not prevent it' the was not answorable. In Many instances also, id .. state of the country might prevent a speedy 0111°tis ing of the s hip s i n t h e d ock; which, twin var"-tr causes, may at, times amount to a much gr e , j n. number than at oth er s ; and if d e l a y we r e oce'll o t ed by such un a v oi d a bl e c i rcumstances, it (-I'f come under the ag reement conta i ned in the bill 1.,e lading. If th e • ver dia were allowed in this c j every trader who bad goods on board this ship 0 be habit!. -41 t" . 'Lord Chi e f J ust i ce MANSFIELD—".Bew-e6kool defendant, th ere - are; I b e li eve, two defaiiiters4 b. whom the plaintiff- wotild also have a right to r t fic e ver. People oug ht t o guar d aga i nst the recurreol of this circumstance in future charter-partie s h ot other instrum en t s; Th ey may ' agree or not , as ttecl please, to pay demurrage, when they are prevel o ,•' . , from unloading - by the crowded state of the Dc' e , Rule granted. We understand that the '" Coutes Ia -ma lately published by 'Mons. BOUILI.Y, of the Fr e j o f .Academy, which has b een so Lighly approv e j in by the Dowager Lady D e C LIFF01(1), - an d p lac', the hands of h er R o y a l Highness the. Princess Cll. 1s LOTTL, has alreadrb een adopted as, a Class-b 0 several of our most respe6lable Acade, ;; ies, ,1; o f therefore confidently recommend it to the no t `` — the juvenile world. BIRTHS. th 6 At King's-find HouSe, Bath Powick, Worcestersh ire ' Lady of Sir Edward Denny, of a Spn. ivcils, On the ad inst. Mrs. W. L ax, of West Horrington , ' of aOnM Daughter. i oodak last, at Whitehall, the wife of lose P -- Piliii' more, L. L. D. of a Sol. -., MARRIED: t oe On Wednesday mor n i ng , at S t. f ames ' s Church, I'l°4ool Waddelow, . Esq. of Littleport, Cambridgeshire, to laughter of the late M r . 1 as , ic Wing, of Milden- ' o 3 " „ "flei Yesterday, at Sr. Michael's, C orn hill , b y t h e Re v , , , e5 ,.° inas.Wrench, lZeglor of the said Parish, Mr. lohn 10 1 " St. Paul's Church-ya r d, to A nne, eldest daug h t er " Ell he Same dayiezer Chater, , o at f St. pp Atigner'Clapu ton L:, London. bridge, - the p olo Samuel .Lock; U.D. to Sarah - Clinch, both of Wof Surrey. On Thursday, at Hackney, Charles L ang more, E Hackney, to Miss-Louisa Jenkins, of th e same plac e. sq' • • 1)1 L e Lately, at -the Madeir as , th e e ld est son o f Sit — 1 Wat_son-,.flarr. • , itro or On I uesday, at Fulwe,ll Lodge, Twiek-nbain C nri ' the infant dang,hter of lames "Pcirndie ltownoitt, ESq • „or °i On Wednes,tay mo r ni ng , at B attersea, i n the 67'11 jilty his age, john Perry, E sq . in of Moor ; the Cu t ' , Essex. L i vs 1 , 'Vesterday,morning, at Camberwell, after a few ""I , At j • La os ness-, Mrs: Rich, wife of Mr. %Valiant (Licit o f hr On the 7th inst. Geor ge Th orn , U p h o l s t e rer, o f 130(., yard, Lincoln's-inn-fields : his death was occasione d ' O IP erting himself at' the tire in the above place.' This. i' has lett a,wite and hit cii Wren in lament his lobs• ' P/</Cli Oh YESTE Bank Stock, 244 k 249 Navy 5 per Cent. Zoo 99 ;- Irish 5 per Cent. 97 4 per Cent. &z 2 4 1-,. per Cent. Hen. 65 3 per Cent. Cons. 66 g Bank L. Ann.. r 7 a 13.16t1ts street, rr*vcror•ttitli be addrmad. 1. SI OCXS India Stack, al India Bonds, 265. 275. " 3 per Cent. 1751, 66 r, E xeheq o t i is , 85. r s. r Omnium, 5 A it dis. Imperial Anil. 6 1-16th i Cons. fvr ,27th inst. 66_,.."41. L tpend e in an d 013: °rher at i c •_itse. i s 111.,biteusmli, s peedil .11 1 , de Aeg .4py pe r . rn : ger, kid do Pre n in eve r d til , -~ ~` V AL el\P